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Unable to access help

dcantor

dcantor

May
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After upgrading to Window 10, when I start TCMD 17.00.77 x64, pressing F1, or entering the command
HELP (with or without arguments), brings up the help application, but with error
Code: 
Unable to download.

Unable to open this internet site.  The requested site is
either unavailable or cannot be found.  Please try
again later.

TCMD.INI has WebHelp=No

The resulting help window has no content.
 
Both WebHelp options are set to No, and /N has no different effect with regards to the help issue.

I can still get help by invoking the .CHM file directly (and correctly) from a desktop shortcut, but that means I have to navigate explicitly
to the topic I want. I'm not considering this urgent, but would of course like a fix.
 
Yup, it sounds like the same issue. Until I upgrade to the newest version of TCMD, I'll just live with it.
 
The problem I reported was in a TCC process which started life as a tab in TCMD, but the TCMD crashed. (See my other post about that.)
Now that I've got TCMD working again without crashing, TCC invokes its help correctly! Weird.
 
dcantor said:
The problem I reported was in a TCC process which started life as a tab in TCMD, but the TCMD crashed. (See my other post about that.)
Now that I've got TCMD working again without crashing, TCC invokes its help correctly! Weird.
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To be precise, a third-party plugin crashed, not TCMD.

But it is peculiar about the help -- I suspect that TCC still thought that it was in a tab window and it was trying to get TCMD to display the help. (TCC only displays the help if it's running in a stand-alone console window; otherwise it's TCMD's responsibility.)
 
Okay. At the time I wrote the second previous note, I was still thinking it was TCMD that crashed.

But this note string is about HELP not working correctly. In a TCC instance which is not in a tab in TCMD, the help works incorrectly as I've noted above. It doesn't matter whether the TCC process was started as a tab and detached, or started directly from a desktop icon. In a TCC process running in a TCMD tab, help works correctly. I still think it's a bug. And it happens whether the TCC is elevated or not.
 
dcantor said:
I still think it's a bug. And it happens whether the TCC is elevated or not.
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I agree it's a bug, but it's not a TCC bug, it's a Windows bug. Microsoft has known about it for more than a year and hasn't been interested in fixing it. (Presumably part of their dropping support for CHM help files.)

TCMD & TCC v19 & 20 were kludged to work around the bug; I don't have plans to make the (extensive) mods for v17.
 
Thanks for the explanation, Rex. I will upgrade to a more recent version soon, but first I want to resolve as many problems induced by my upgrading to Windows 10 as possible. (And I'm seriously thinking of reverting to Windows 7.)
 
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